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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- It would be a first for a U.S. national park: requiring reservations to get in. But it's an option that Zion National Park is considering to manage an overwhelming surge of visitors to its sweeping red-rock vistas and canyons in Utah....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fatal shooting of an unarmed Australian woman in Minnesota isn't by any means the first time police in the U.S. have mistakenly killed someone who called them for help or to report a crime....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John McCain's treatment for brain cancer could keep him out of Washington for weeks, perhaps months, and yet it's unlikely anyone will challenge his extended leave....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Latest on developments in Israel (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House press secretary Sean Spicer abruptly resigned his position Friday, ending a rocky six-month tenure that made his news briefings defending President Donald Trump must-see TV. He said Trump's White House "could benefit from a clean slate."...
(Vatican Radio) Hindu prayers, Sufi meditation, Urdu Christian songs and Chinese children’s dancing: those are just a few of the wide variety of religious and cultural activities on offer this Sunday at a ‘Peace and Unity’ event in Manchester Cathedral.The afternoon event, organised in conjunction with the city’s interfaith network, comes just two months after a terror attack at Manchester Arena which killed 23 people and injured hundreds of others.The goal of the ‘Peace and Unity’ event is to celebrate the cultural diversity of the city, which counts over two hundred different linguistic and ethnic groups.Philippa Hitchen talked to one of the organisers, Rev. Rogers Govender, dean of the Anglican cathedral that is hosting the event with the hashtag #WeStandTogether….Listen: Govender says this is the second year in a row that he has helped to organize such a cultural event to bring people together from the city’s diverse relig...
India’s Catholic bishops have welcomed India's new president, hoping he will be able to foster peace, development and justice for all in his largely ceremonial role. Ram Nath Kovind, a candidate of the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led coalition of prime minister Narendra Modi was declared India’s 14th president on July 20. The Indian Parliament and state legislatures voted on July 17, the results of which were declared on Thursday. The 71-year old low-caste Dalit won with an overwhelming majority over Meira Kumar, also a Dalit candidate, backed by the opposition Congress party.The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) offers its "prayers for his good health, wisdom and strength" so he might lead the country "toward peace, development and justice for all peoples," said CBCI Secretary General Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas in a statement. The bishops pray that "God ma...
At the Triennial Southern Africa Catholic Leaders’ Joint Witness Meeting 2017 Archbishop Stephen Brislin of Cape Town who is also President of the Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) emphasised the importance of unity in diversity in proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord.He said that diversity and richness of many charisms are the source of success in spreading the Good News.Joint Witness is a meeting of the Leadership Conference of Consecrated Life (LCCL) and the Bishops of Southern Africa Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC). The meeting normally takes place once in every three years. It is a platform whereby the two conferences discuss issues affecting the local Church and the society at large.The problems of Human Trafficking, Migrants and Refugees were some the topics that topped the agenda of the discussions during the Joint Witness Meeting 2017.(Below is the homily)LCCLSA AND SACBC TRIENNIAL MEETING 2017The Gospel of today’s Mass reca...
(Vatican Radio) The chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, has written the U.S. Senate urging lawmakers “to oppose any effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without a concurrent replacement plan that protects poor and vulnerable people, including immigrants, safeguards the unborn, and supports conscience rights.”Congress is considering legislation to replace the controversial health care program, also known as Obamacare.Bishop Dewane notes that, even before any legislation had been proposed, the U.S. Bishops had made clear “that a repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate health care for the millions of people who now rely upon it for their wellbeing.” He continues: “To end coverage for those who struggle every day without an adequate alternat...
